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Enabling model-driven software development tools for the internet of things

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Juergen DingelAuthors Info & Claims

MiSE '19: Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Modelling in Software Engineerings

Pages 93 - 99

https://doi.org/10.1109/MiSE.2019.00022

Published: 26 May 2019 Publication History

Abstract

The heterogeneity and complexity of Internet of Things (IoT) applications present new challenges to the software development process. Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) is increasingly being recognized as a key paradigm in tackling many of these challenges, as evident by the emergence of a significant number of MDSD frameworks targeting IoT in the past couple of years. At the heart of IoT applications are embedded and realtime systems, a domain where model-driven development is well-established and many existing tools have a proven track record. Unfortunately, only a handful of these tools support out-of-the-box integration with the IoT. In this work, we discuss the different design and implementation decisions for enabling existing actor-oriented MDSD tools for the IoT. Moreover, we propose an integration approach based on the use of proxy actors and system interfaces. The approach offers seamless and flexible integration of external IoT devices into the user's model. We implement and evaluate our approach using the MDSD tool Papyrus for Realtime as a testbed.

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Su ZYu ZWang DYang YJiang YWang RChang WSun JOshana R(2022)HCGProceedings of the 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference10.1145/3489517.3530582(1033-1038)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3489517.3530582
Bisma MAzam FRasheed YAnwar M(2020)A Model-Driven Framework for Ensuring Role Based Access Control in IoT DevicesProceedings of the 2020 6th International Conference on Computing and Artificial Intelligence10.1145/3404555.3404582(455-460)Online publication date: 23-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3404555.3404582

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Su ZYu ZWang DYang YJiang YWang RChang WSun JOshana R(2022)HCGProceedings of the 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference10.1145/3489517.3530582(1033-1038)Online publication date: 10-Jul-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3489517.3530582
Bisma MAzam FRasheed YAnwar M(2020)A Model-Driven Framework for Ensuring Role Based Access Control in IoT DevicesProceedings of the 2020 6th International Conference on Computing and Artificial Intelligence10.1145/3404555.3404582(455-460)Online publication date: 23-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3404555.3404582

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